ownerown‧er /ˈəʊnə $ ˈoʊnər/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 
I met the owner of the local hotel.original/previous/new owner the club’s new owners He was now the proud owner of a bright red sports car.car-owner/dog-owner etc Dog-owners have been warned to keep their animals under control.home-owner (=someone who owns their house)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a property owner
- Car owners are facing a 10% rise in the price of gasoline.
- He is the proud owner of two Olympic gold medals.
- The owners of the company live abroad.
- The previous owner painted the outside of the house yellow.
- Already, Buss said, talk of the Padres presence has prompted some property owners to map renovation or development projects.
- For some owners, of course, religion existed less for conversion than control.
- It's worth £20 of anybody's money, whether you're an owner or an enthusiast.
- Pit Bull owners demonstrate outside Parliament.
- Suppose then that factors and their owners always move together.
- The gallery was full and the gallery owner looked happier than when I had last seen him.
Longman Language Activatorthe person who owns something
the person who owns something: · The previous owner painted the outside of the house yellow.owner of: · The owners of the company live abroad.the proud owner of something: · He is the proud owner of two Olympic gold medals.car/dog/home etc owner: · Car owners are facing a 10% rise in the price of gasoline.
someone who owns a building and is paid money by the people who live in it or use it: · Our landlord has promised to fix the heating by Tuesday.· College accommodation offices provide lists of private landlords and landladies.
someone who owns and runs a business, especially a small business such as a shop or a restaurant: · Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor· My father had fallen victim to an unscrupulous garage proprietor.proprietor of: · As proprietors of the general store, Mr and Mrs Stacey knew everything that went on in the town.
someone who owns or lives in a house - used especially in official or legal contexts: · The police are giving advice to householders on how to improve the security of their homes.· Householders and tradesmen both use the refuse dump to dispose of their garbage.
someone who owns their own home: · The latest rise in interest rates is bad news for home-owners.· The latest trend is for home-owners to carry out improvements before selling their properties.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the club’s new owners He was now the proud owner of a bright red sports car. Dog-owners have been warned to keep their animals under control. I’ll return the money to its rightful owner.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
the club’s new owners He was now the proud owner of a bright red sports car. Dog-owners have been warned to keep their animals under control. (=someone who owns their house)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· It is estimated that around 64 million Americans are cat owners.
· Dog owners must be responsible for controlling their animals.
· The factory owner placed a large order for some new equipment.
· All house owners must pay council tax.
· During hot summer days, pet owners should keep their pet indoors.
· It makes sense for property owners to extend their houses rather than move.
(also the proud possessor of something formal)· She is now the proud owner of a four-bedroomed house.
· He worked as a restaurant manager at Mario's Pizzas for 10 years.
I’ll return the money to its rightful owner.· The company is also said to have been the beneficial owner of £346,800 held by solicitors in London.· Lawyers, under the cloak of client confidentiality, can mask the beneficial owners of accounts.
· Her new owner suspected that there had been difficulties, so decided to start Jasmine's training right from the beginning again.· Those fans are going to greet the new contract between owners and players with a massive yawn.· The new owner, too, had refused to be interviewed.· Its art renaissance began in 1996, when the new owners bought it up.· Leasehold reform to give new rights to owners of flats.· But when new owners took it over, they dropped the plan.· The new owners claim the deal is innocuous.· The new owner is an international investment firm.
· The original owners could not sustain the necessary level of investment so the company has now been sold.· You are buying a proven and successful business-its original owners demonstrated that it works.· The original owner of the house was a professor at the University.· The original owner keeps the land but gives up the right to develop it.· The Red Cross isn't too disheartened by the lack of interest, but no doubt the original owner would not be amused.· The claim was lodged last year by the three children of the original owner.· However, an original owner can reclaim within three years from the date of the loss or robbery.· This is a most comprehensive work which lists the original owners of the lathes and their biography.
· This is one of those originals and still giving its present day owner great enjoyment.· Bloomwater's present owner was a more prosaic figure, Sir Lionel Newman, the paper magnate.· Since then the pubs passed down through sons, daughters, cousins and nephews to it's present day owners.· The property is a modern redbrick house which has been tastefully decorated by its present owners.· The present owners seemed to be living around the back of the house, beside junk-filled stables.· Bruce and Siddy the boxers are eight years old but can no longer stay with their present owner.
· I have been told by the previous owner that he filled the hubs with grease instead of oil.· The previous owner was one Jeremy Finch, who at the time of the sale had lived in Larchmont.· The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner.· The previous owners had never received any publicity.· An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner.· The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.· This shows the line of descent down to three previous owners of Upper Halling.
· Many of our most difficult cases are those where buildings belong not to private owners but to institutions or government organizations.· By nightfall, the private airboat owners who had volunteered their services were asked to go home.· Not until higher prices translate into higher profits for private owners will enterprises respond appropriately to the bidding of the invisible hand.· It then bought the trash recycling plant from its private owner.· Enclosure might result in every acre being grabbed by private owners, who would sell for speculative building.· By law, the airwaves belong to the public, not to private business owners.· What happens if a company is sold to one private sector owner but is transferred to another within a year?· Neither public nor private owners happen to be great at monitoring managements.
· In its place though, one of you could soon be the proud owner of an Action Replay cartridge.· Is C-3P0 the proud owner of a Galant?· She is now the proud owner of an enviable figure, comparable with some one half her age.· You are not yet the proud owner of the copier you have come for.· Putting the pressure on I am the very proud owner of a Red Snakehead.· For your chance to be a proud owner, just study our picture, right.· Three weeks later and thanks to the filter matting, I was the proud owner of five new Zebra Finches.· Jasmine is also married and the proud owner of a gold wedding ring - her father's.
· After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret.· And who is the paintings' rightful owner?· In addition, art thefts are likely to be pursued by their rightful owners for well over twenty years.· All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony's toy to its rightful owner.· What about the bird of paradise itself, the rightful owner of the plumes?· The State Licensing office determined Singer was the rightful owner, as it were, of the deactivated license.
NOUN· BThe group has done a substantial amount of work that business owners appreciate.· By law, the airwaves belong to the public, not to private business owners.· Any shrewd business owner, after all, wants to get customers in and out as quickly and efficiently as possible.· Bruce Knight, a Vermont-based business broker, said many business owners are in the same bind as Lifschultz.· Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.· The first investor, the small business owner, pays 28 % of the nominal gain.· Meanwhile, like the refugees in Casablanca, the business owners wait, and wait, and wait.· Residents and business owners boarded homes and storefronts with plywood and stocked up on bottled water, canned goods and batteries.
· Unfortunately they are no respecters of persons or property as car owners find to their dismay.· When Brayton died in a crash during practice, Ongais was asked by car owner John Menard to step in.· Any deal between the two will have to safeguard the identity of car owners because of Britain's Data Protection Act.· The idea is to reserve the precious parking spaces that car owners spend hours digging out of the snow.· No car owner can neglect to check such basic safety features as tyres, brakes, oil and steering.· Affluence was hardly a protective factor for car owners.· But I expect that goes for millions of unnecessary car owners!· Local car owners quietly decamped to Sanford for better service.
· Three out of four home owners expressed concern about the greenhouse effect.· Were they ministers, the funeral home owner, the largest landowner?· The Royal Commission wants more grants for home owners to remove lead pipes.· Inviting other home owners and managers to each home in turn indicates the extent to which this openness has developed.· He also wanted to scrap the council tax discount offered to second-home owners.· Two women in the car escaped unhurt, but the home owner says he's lucky to be alive.· The Tribunal hears appeals by prospective residential home owners against local authorities' refusal to register.· Who loses? Home owners, customers with overdrafts and small businessmen.
· It was almost past understanding: Grover was whole or part owner of any number of buildings and restaurants.· Today, Grace is part owner of a 10-employee firm that builds World Wide Web sites for corporations.
· Therefore, it follows, renters lack any incentive to vote against tax hikes and the vulnerable property owners need special protection.· The mood on the street is positive, and the larger property owners appear to recognize the potential benefits.· Many also consider restitution unfair on the grounds that everybody suffered under Communism but only property owners will receive compensation.· In the past, public utility districts would send delinquent tenants' charges on those meters to the property owner.· The power of each property owner is checked by the corresponding power of each other property owner.· In 1995, the Stockton Municipal Utilities District placed $ 982, 000 worth of such liens on rental property owners.· Until leasing prospects improve, property owners should donate the space to nonprofit groups and cultural institutions.
· Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye, said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.· The restaurant owner went around the room, trying to separate the dancers.· With that vision in mind, Wilson got up early one recent day and headed to a marketing convention for restaurant owners.· Her husband, a restaurant owner, was almost twice her age and diabetic.· Abrahamian said the largest impact will be felt by restaurant owners.· Rather we get a feeling for the differences in the island societies through encounters with restaurant owners.
· Warn the shop owner in advance and enlist his help.· The shop owner continued to gaze out at the blue air which fell away below, just ten yards from his feet.· Householders and shop owners in the town have been put on standby because of the influx of vermin.· Luoma, the sandwich shop owner, said he had planned to vote for Forbes before his commercial blitz began.· A court heard that the shop owner would have died but for the prompt action of two ambulancemen.· Before it was only pet shop owners who were entertained!· The shop owner gives him to a little girl who needs him and cares for him.
· The room was originally designed for the Pennsylvanian department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann from 1935.· They have this preconception of a gun store owner.· In 1968 he married Sonja Haraldsen, the daughter of a department store owner.· Modena Fuston, a 67-year-old former store owner, is one such constituent.· And there are no plans to prosecute the store owners.· Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner, resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.· Now store owner Paul Harper has offered a £500 reward for information leading to a conviction.· For store owners to think that customer growth will come via cars to an already terribly congested downtown area is beyond belief.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- It was almost past understanding: Grover was whole or part owner of any number of buildings and restaurants.
- The man is Captain Peleg, part owner of the ship.
- Today, Grace is part owner of a 10-employee firm that builds World Wide Web sites for corporations.
- Chapter 8 provides a summary of the findings from the previous chapters and draws conclusions.
- If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
- In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.
- Instead of travelling with the security truck carrying the money, Morgan had checked out the area round the bank the previous day.
- Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
- The Coroner's inquest had been held in Southwold the previous day and he had attended with Evelyn.
- The detailed history in the previous chapters has given an account of Ian Paisley's personal combination of religion and politics.
- The temperature then was 41 after the game was postponed the previous day because of freezing rain and snow.
WORD FAMILYnounownerownershipverbowndisown
someone who owns somethingowner of I met the owner of the local hotel.original/previous/new owner the club’s new owners He was now the proud owner of a bright red sports car.car-owner/dog-owner etc Dog-owners have been warned to keep their animals under control.home-owner (=someone who owns their house)